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Post by Jaymz on Apr 19, 2011 8:26:49 GMT
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Hero
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King of RULES!
Everything Rules
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Post by Hero on Apr 19, 2011 8:29:55 GMT
This is amazing news!  Hail Cykill! |
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Post by sf1378 on Apr 19, 2011 16:16:37 GMT
I couldn't abide Leader -1's and Cykill's yellow teeth, they needed to brush that tartar away!
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 4, 2012 18:43:37 GMT
Behold this amazing tape featuring a doom laden story. Narrator sounds familiar, but can't place him.
SUDDENLY, KILLER ROBOTS APPEAR WITH ALL THEIR EVIL MIGHT!
-Ralph
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Post by duffism1981 on Sept 4, 2012 22:47:51 GMT
This is...erm....interesting music it has.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 5, 2012 7:09:42 GMT
I think you'll find that it is amazing!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 6, 2012 17:14:15 GMT
That was enjoyably madcap.
Points off for no mentions of Stron-Domez.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 6, 2012 17:27:57 GMT
The identity of the narrator is driving me batty. I know that voice!
-Ralph
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Hero
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Everything Rules
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Post by Hero on Apr 19, 2014 23:11:28 GMT
Recently acquired Challenge of the Gobots on DVD.
Only the 5-part miniseries however, but its a start. Hope more DVDs follow.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 20, 2014 9:21:06 GMT
Warner Archive very recently announced a further set!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 20, 2014 9:24:34 GMT
First thirty eps.
Andy
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 20, 2014 10:59:34 GMT
More news later today? Here's what's happening: later this month is "WonderCon Anaheim 2014," an annual get-together in California from the folks behind Comic-Con San Diego. On Sunday, April 20th, the Warner Archive is holding a panel at the con, called "GoBots, Warner Archive Collection and Beyond!" It will be held from 3PM to 4PM local time, there at the Anaheim Convention Center, and the focus is on the show with the morphing robots. To make it as exciting as possible, you can look for guests to include Lou Richards (the voice of "Leader1" himself!), Alan Burnett (the show writer and story editor), Kelly Ward (who wrote 22 of the episodes), and Warner Archive podcast hosts Matthew Patterson and D.W. Ferranti...among others!For readers of this website, however, the BIG news at this WonderCon Anaheim panel will be the announcement that more DVDs are in the works for the GoBots: they'll explain how many releases to expect, when (roughly) to expect them, and we're sure that there will be clips to show. We wish we had that news for you right now, but - since we can't make it out to California ourselves! - we hope the Warner Archive will fill us in with all that info on the following day. Stay tuned! In the meantime, if you plan to be in Anaheim on Easter Sunday, April 20th, then be sure to drop by WonderCon and attend the panel. Our thanks to reader Mathew Gaastra for his help with this!Taken from: www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Challenge-GoBots-DVDs-Planned/19665#ixzz2zQI4ujxM |
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 19, 2014 22:11:35 GMT
Watched the mini-series DVD this afternoon. I was much more impressed than I thought I was going to be; worth the price of admission. There was a coherent five part story there and some thought about what to do with the various characters and vehicles.
Is the rest of the series that kind of quality? or does it tail off? I'm seriously tempted to give the 30 episode set a go now.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 28, 2016 11:28:06 GMT
The quite inferior Australian intro.
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 28, 2016 13:18:48 GMT
The Machine Men???
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 28, 2016 13:21:38 GMT
That's what they were called in Australia. Andy |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 28, 2016 13:22:57 GMT
WHAT.
WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN???!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 28, 2016 13:34:22 GMT
When they were released in Australia, back in the day.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 28, 2016 15:30:12 GMT
No!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 28, 2016 15:30:54 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 28, 2016 17:04:03 GMT
First Toblerone. Then Chocolate Oranges. Then Nick's Surprise Beard. I can't cope with all these shocks in quick succession!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 28, 2016 17:08:10 GMT
Which is the biggest of the shocks?
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Post by duffism1981 on Nov 28, 2016 17:14:39 GMT
When I say this thread had been active, I was hoping it was to announce that Battle of the Rock Lords was coming out on dvd. Instead it's an odd Australian thingy.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 28, 2016 17:26:18 GMT
Sadly that has not come to pass...yet.
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 28, 2016 17:41:28 GMT
Which is the biggest of the shocks? Nick's Surprise Beard. -Ralph |
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Post by Toph on Oct 31, 2018 0:18:26 GMT
I have acquired the series on DVD, and have finished watching the origin/pilot miniseries.
I have very little memories of the show, as I've not seen it since the eighties.
Like... I knew it wasn't as bad as it's reputation? Because nothing can be as bad as many TF fans who don't even know what a gobot really is make it out to be.
But like... this really is not bad at all. It's held up pretty well, actually. It's weakest point is Hanna-Barbera animation, but even that isn't really any worse than the animation company Sunbow used.
The plot, Cy-Kill's goals, and general writing is considerably stronger than TF's MTMTE miniseries.
"Cy-Kill is such a joke, he should only be canon fodder. Always dying whenever he shows up."
He arrives on earth and conquers it within a few days, enslaved the entire human race with mind control, and captures the Guardian's base and Leader-1.
But yeah, between him and sunbow megatron, he's the joke.
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 31, 2018 20:08:25 GMT
I bought the mini-series DVD a while back and really liked it. The two volumes of the series proper are on my to buy list.
*looks back up thread*
Jesus. Four years ago. FOUR YEARS AGO I watched the mini-series and it's still in my head as something I've just done.
Time is messing with my mind now.
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Post by Toph on Oct 31, 2018 21:26:01 GMT
I'm onto the proper series now, and the animation and writing isn't up to snuff with the miniseries. But neither is it any worse than Sunbow G1, either.
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Post by Toph on Nov 3, 2018 6:36:44 GMT
I remember the animation being worse than it actually is.
It's not great, but it's much more consistent than Transformers.
Part of this consistency is that it goes off model far less. Or at least when it does, it's not massively so.
They're also consistent during transformation, always transforming the same way time after time, episode after episode, where as Transformers usually had them transforming any way the animator imagined. Sometimes completely differently within the same episode.
For Hanna Barbera, this is unusually good animation.
I also seem to recall Scooter being whinier and more useless than he actually is. My memories had Jarjar Binxed him, but he's actually not very obnoxious. He can get a bit tiresome, but that's largely due to his voice.
Gobotron is a much more interesting planet than Cybertron. The little bits of info we get, they give it a fair greater amount of worldbuilding. (Cybertron as a place honestly wouldn't start to get interesting to me until Beast Wars. And it wasn't until Dreamwave before anyone really starts to flesh it out)
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 25, 2023 20:50:31 GMT
Having been writing about Robo Machines for the zine, it prompted me to rewatch the five-part Gobots mini-series. Then I went looking for a good viewing order for the rest of the series, having bought the DVDs years ago. I found the five-part sequel to the original mini buried towards the end of the season, so I've started watching that. I like the way it touches on some origin stuff, little bit of world building there I didn't realise the Gobots had.
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